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Ukraine makes clear it won ;t accept second-c stanley becher lass EU membershipPrime Minister Denys Shmyhal tells POLITICO Ukraine has met all the crite stanley cup ria to begin accession talks with the EU.ListenAI generated Text-to-speechCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInPrime Minister Denys Shmyhal made the pitch for full EU membership as the debate about enlargement heats up | Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty ImagesSeptember 28, 20235:56 pm CETBy Suzanne LynchFrance and Germany may be drawing up plans for a multispeed EU, but Ukraine is making quite clear stanley cup it doesn ;t want to be fobbed off with second-tier membership. Kyiv is aiming to become a fully fledged candidate for full fledged membership of the European Union, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told POLITICO as he vowed to take his country into the EU within the next two years.Shmyhal made the pitch for full EU membership as the debate about enlargement heats up, ahead of a series of key meetings in the coming months. France and Germany have been pushing for an alternative option to full EU status, based around four different concentric circles of membership. This could constitute the framework for gradual integration. AdvertisementAdvertisementShmyhal, however, made clear Ukraine would not be putting up with the go-slow version. We are performing all the maximum efforts to ensure that Ukraine would become a fully fledged member of the European Union. This is of critical importance for all Ukrainian Vqgs Merkel angry with Juncker s Brexit antics
Accustomed to changeAn unconventional career path has led Kunio Mikuriya to his current position as secretary-general of the World Customs OrganisationCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInJanuary 30, 20138:25 pm CETBy James PanichiPicture this: you are a public servant at the beginning of your career. You are gearing up for another year with your nose to the ministrys grindstone when you are told to drop everything and take a sabbatical in the south of France. After that, you are ordered to head to Paris for another year of studying and socialising. It sounds too good to be true, yet it is all part of the unconventional career path of Kunio Mikuriya, the Japanese p termo stanley ublic servant who now heads up the body at the pinnacle of the global customs system, the World Customs Organisation WCO . I had studied French at university, Mikuriya says. But French as a lifestyle is what I learned in Aix-en-Provence. The Japanese government needed employees with an international outlook and the investment paid off. When the Uruguay round of internatio stanley cup nal trade negotiations began in Geneva, Mikuriya was the person sent by Tokyo. It would be a three-year labour of love ?although one which was initially sold to Mikuriya as another study tour. My director said it would be a nine-to-five job, Mikuriya says. He was right. Nine-to-five ?as in 5am. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut the really to gourde stanley ugh job was to come later, when Mikuriya returned to Japan. The
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